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The Sword of Deborah

by F. Tennyson Jesse

"The Sword of Deborah" contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during World War I. She writes: "I was glad to have seen all the different convoys I had, because no two had been to me alike, and to each I am indebted for a differing expression of the same vision, which is the vision splendid of a duty undertaken gladly and sustained with courage. From my first convoys -- the Fannies and the G.S.V.A.D.'s -- I got the wonderful facts of it, at the V.A.D. Convoy at E---- I caught that side of it which I as most glad of all to encounter, and at the V.A.D. Convoy at T----- I found that delightful spirit of sheer joy in danger which is too precious to be allowed to die out of the world just because there happens to be, at present, such a great deal too much danger let loose upon it."

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F. Tennyson Jesse

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Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood was an English criminologist, journalist and author (she also wrote as Wynifried Margaret Tennyson). Fryniwyd was the second of three daughters of the Reverend Eustace...

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